Tim hies from the West Midlands, has lived in London for some 17 years and has been organising social events for the last eight. He has worked for Blackwell’s and Oxford University Press and has taken time out since to focus on writing, events and the website you’re currently reading.

It was after finishing the penultimate draft of a young adults book that the urban fantasy character lurking at the back of Tim’s mind jumped up and said ‘My turn’…

He’s hoping you’re enjoying this here site and the stories on Big City Magic if you’d be so inclined to check them out…

Any feedback on either and support or interest of any kind is very much appreciated.

We attended Sindbad Sci-fi’s ARAB SCIENCE FICTION: From Imagination to Innovation in November and were absolutely blown away. If you’re the slightest bit intrigued then just go to their next event – you’ll come away with a head-full of ideas and an insight into the wider scene of the genre we love. And if you’re not intrigued then go anyway and realise how badly you got it wrong…

Previous Events

ARAB SCIENCE FICTION: From Imagination to Innovation

BBC broadcaster, Samira Ahmed chairs astellar panel of visionary thinkerswho offer new perspectives on whether nurturing creativity through science fiction could be more crucial to our global progress than we might realise.

What is the link between technological innovation and artistic imagination? Science fiction is often thought to be the ultimate bridge between science and the arts. Could exploring this symbiotic relationship enable the next generation to envision an alternative future of the Middle East? Can inventive forms of art, film and literature help to inspire new waves of scientific development in the Arab world today and beyond?

In true geek spirit, this event is about brokering dialogue and engagement between different spheres; science and the arts, ‘East’ and ‘West’, academia and popular culture. And we also hope participants will have a good time!

Fantastical storytelling in Arabic doesn’t begin with and end with The Thousand and One Nights; in fact there is a long history of speculative fiction in Arabic, stretching all the way back to medieval intellectuals like al-Farabi and Ibn al-Nafis. This panel will explore the past, present and future of Arab and Arabic Science Fiction Narratives, incluyding authors writing in Arabic- such as Ahmed Khalid Towfik and Noura al-Nouman – and the work of members of the Arab diaspora, such as Amal El-Mohtar and Saladin Ahmed.